[Nix-dev] Re: Patch for autoconf-2.62: tar limited path length.

[Nicolas Pierron]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 20:09, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
> My understanding of the GNU tar manual is that `o' corresponds to `-o',
> which is specified as follows:
>
>  `--no-same-owner'
>  `-o'
>       When extracting an archive, do not attempt to preserve the owner
>       specified in the `tar' archive.  This the default behavior for
>       ordinary users.

Yes, when the "-o" option is used to un-tar, not to tar.

> So it doesn't relate to "limited path length", does it?

fom the same man page (I guess):

       -o, --old-archive, --portability
	      write a V7 format archive, rather than ANSI format

This limit the size to 99 letters inside the path name.


-- 
Nicolas Pierron
- If you are doing something twice then you should try to do it once.